Mary Robinette Kowal – The Calculating Stars the threat of a massive meteorite strike sparks a much accelerated rush to space back in the early 1950s!Raymond Bolton – Awakening a world on the cusp of an industrial revolution is invaded by aliens… Book 1 of The Ydron Saga

Gardner Dozois (editor) – The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection the editor’s final volume of 38 stories, completed before he died.Ellen Datlow (editor) – The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 21 stories from 2017

William Hope Hodgson – The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of WHH excellent collection from Oldstyle Tales PressFitz-James O’Brien – The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of F-JO. Subtitled What Was It? & Other Horrors. From Oldstyle Tales PressEdith Nesbit – The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of EN. Subtitled Man-Size in Marble and Other Horrors. 19 stories, some illustrated and others annotated (as are the other 2 volumes).

in ‘B’ format:

Charles Stross – The Delirium Brief the 8th of the Laundry Files

Jay Kristoff – Godsgrave book 2 of The Nevernight ChronicleJonathan French – The Grey Bastards a company of half-orcs patrol the wasteland, protecting human lands from bands of true orcsChristopher Husberg – Blood Requiem 3rd volue in the Chaos Queen quintetFonda Lee – Jade City turf war fro the control of jade, which in Janloon is used for magic…

Francesco Dimitri – The Book of Hidden Things after Art disappears in southern Italy, his friends discover some of his secrets, including a strange book…

Eric Flint & Mike Resnick – The Gods of Sagittarius ancient aliens may have visited Earth, and they also seem to have destroyed another race’s religious centre and now an alien shaman seeking revenge desires human help…

Larry Marder – Beanworld Omnibus vol 1 collecting the first 21 issues of the 1980s b&w comic. Very strange and very good!

Huw Lewis Jones & Karl Herbert – Explorers’ Sketchbooks heavily illustrated h/c with extracts and art from the original journals, etc. kept by dozens of explorers as they travelled the remote parts of the world

gift:

Harry Potter – Dogtags style necklace with a Gryffindor House crest and a Golden Snitch attachedHarry Potter – Dogtags style necklace with the Hogwarts School crest and a Deathly Hallows device attached

Transreal Fiction

Transreal Fiction is a shop dedicated to selling science fiction, fantasy & related books, together with a limited selection of other merchandise.But really, it’s about books. Transreal Fiction opened in April 1997 in Cowgatehead and moved to it’s present location nearby in June 2011. The owner, Mike Calder, first sold sf & f books many years ago and has worked in the business either part- or full-time since. For years he also had a respectable job as well, but that’s another story…

The shop is named after the term coined by Rudy Rucker to describe his fiction and I thought it an apt name for a shop specialising in speculative fiction. And, in case you’re wondering, yes, Rudy Rucker was happy to allow me to use of the term as a name for my shop.